Next to the Chapel of St. Elias in the cemetery "Kopcieŭka" there is a memorial column in honor of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the May 3, 1791, which appeared in the late 18th century.

Next to the chapel of St. Elias in the cemetery "Kopcieŭka" there is a memorial column in honor of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the May 3, 1791, which appeared in the late 18th century. The Constitution of the Commonwealth of May 3, 1791 was the first such document in Europe and the second in the world, after the United States Constitution of September 17, 1787. This monument was voluntarily restored in the 1930s (after the Riga Peace Agreement of 1921, Hlybokaje was part of the Second Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) by a group of local residents and has quite well preserved until our days. It is not known who exactly built the column, and what crowned it, today storks nest on it. Commemorative column in Hlybokaje, covered by the spirit of the Belarusian history, still attracts tourists and remains a popular excursion object.

Publication date: 16.01.2019.

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